Lena Lunsford was taken into custody by authorities in Pinellas County, Fla., where she is awaiting extradition on a charge of death of a child by a parent by child abuse, Lewis County, WV, Sheriff Adam Gissy told The Exponent Telegram.

Lena Lunsford was taken into custody by authorities in Pinellas County, Fla., where she is awaiting extradition on a charge of death of a child by a parent by child abuse, Lewis County, WV, Sheriff Adam Gissy told The Exponent Telegram.

If the flood of prescription painkillers in West Virginia fueled the state’s opioid crisis, new prescribing guidelines being taught to medical students, future pharmacists and nurses are seen as critical to stemming the tide. Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines to ensure patients have access to safer, more effective pain treatments while reducing the risk of opioid abuse.

If the flood of prescription painkillers in West Virginia fueled the state’s opioid crisis, new prescribing guidelines being taught to medical students, future pharmacists and nurses are seen as critical to stemming the tide. Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released new guidelines to ensure patients have access to safer, more effective pain treatments while reducing the risk of opioid abuse.

Five years into her sobriety, Elly Donahue is more than willing to give credit where it’s due. “Drug court was my first step to recovery,” said Donahue, who graduated from drug court in 2013. “It’s what pushed me in that direction. I’d been in and out of rehab numerous times before, but drug court makes you accountable and responsible for your actions. It’s what I needed.”

Five years into her sobriety, Elly Donahue is more than willing to give credit where it’s due. “Drug court was my first step to recovery,” said Donahue, who graduated from drug court in 2013. “It’s what pushed me in that direction. I’d been in and out of rehab numerous times before, but drug court makes you accountable and responsible for your actions. It’s what I needed.”

MOUNDSVILLE, WV (AP) — A Marshall County man was behind
bars Monday on federal charges of threatening to kill President Barack
Obama and the president's family in a letter filled with profanity and
racial slurs.

Federal court records say 20-year-old Ryan Kirker of
McMechen is believed to have written the April letter to the White
House that closed with the phrase, "KKK forever."

An affidavit
from a U.S. Secret Service agent says forensic experts also determined
that Kirker had written about plans to kill Obama in a March 28 letter
to someone named John. Special Agent Ken Skaggs said indentations in the
paper linked the two letters.

In the March letter, the affidavit says, Kirker tells John to meet him so the two can travel to Washington, D.C.

That
letter mentioned a specific weapon and Kirker's ability to obtain
armor-piercing ammunition, as well as the fact that "the feds" had
previously visited Kirker's home to investigate a third letter.

Skaggs
confirmed that he and other Secret Service agents visited the family's
home in June 2012 to investigate an anonymous threat sent to the White
House in April 2012.

That letter, which also contained racial
slurs, implored the president to visit McMechen "so that the author can
have 'a shot' at him," Skaggs wrote. "The author goes on to say that if
the first lady comes along, she will be killed also."

Skaggs said formal handwriting analysis is pending, but he believes Ryan Kirker penned all three letters.

Kirker is being held at the Northern Regional Jail and is scheduled to appear before a federal magistrate Tuesday.

Two defense attorneys have been retained, but neither immediately commented on the charges.